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Chill Factor e, the Alpine village due to open just outside Manchester, has began making snow ahead of its official opening date, projected to be in early November. The main slope will be the fifth UK indoor snow centre to be operational at present, and the 58th in the world. It will also be the world’s widest indoor slope, at 100m, and will be completely unobstructed, as the two ski lifts will be suspended from the ceiling....For more info: www.chillfactore.com
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ooooooooh 
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| el Hen wrote: |
| and will be completely unobstructed, as the two ski lifts will be suspended from the ceiling....For more info: www.chillfactore.com |
So how does that work exactly - I could swear that the photos above are show conventional pomas - which by definitiion then has a line of people on it being dragged up the hill - not exactly 'completely unobstructed'
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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doesn't look any bigger the xscape castelford or it that just an optical illusion?
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bertie bassett, In Castleford, the lifts have lift towers sprouting from the snow on the slope, whilst the lift trck runs up alongside the wall.
This causes two problems - the 'effective' width of the slope is less because of the intermittant pylons causing narrowing and people giving them a wide berth use even less of the slope. I am often to be found carving big arcs into the spaces between pylons where there is usually fresh groomed snow !
Secondly, the grooming machine has to twiddle bout a lot more and i suppose the staff need to get their shovels out more often. I assume a slope clear of pylons from edge to edge will be quicker to groom and maintain to a better standard.
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There is a safety aspect too - no need for big crash pads. But there may be more incidents of people hitting lift users.
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lampbus, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATE
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'Andrew Lockerbie, operations director, said: "The start of snow-making is a hugely important milestone in the development of Chill Factor e.
" The exciting news is that it will snow in Trafford continuously, 24-hours a day for the next five weeks until we have close to half a metre of perfect real snow covering the slopes." '
That sounds like a *hell* of a long time, to me 
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jonm,
Well it's been snowing for a couple of weeks now, and it's still not completely covered the slope all over.
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